System uptime not keeping pace with other CPUs time events on VMware VMs due to host overload

Issue

Time stamps of event in the /var/log/messages appear to be "in the future" relative to the overall system uptime. Tasks are hitting soft lockup and NMI watchdog reports tasks stuck for a long time

The system uptime is reported as

crash> sys
...
UPTIME: 08:25:14

which would correspond to

crash> pd 8*3600+25*60+14
$2 = 30314   seconds

Yet the latest timestamps reported in the message buffer are over 34112 seconds, nearly 4000 seconds MORE than the system uptime

crash> bt 3149
PID: 3149   TASK: ffff9056799bd140  CPU: 4   COMMAND: "xfsaild/dm-1"
    [exception RIP: mpt_put_msg_frame+0x5e]
     RIP: ffffffffc03473be  RSP: ffff9056766dbb28  RFLAGS: 00000246
     RAX: ffffb63ac35c0000  RBX: ffff90567ac42000  RCX: 000000000000000c
     RDX: ffff905679914400  RSI: ffff90567ac42000  RDI: 000000000000000e
     RBP: ffff9056766dbb18   R8: 0000000000000003   R9: 00000006398d93ff
     R10: ffff90567963f0d8  R11: ffff90562837f880  R12: 0000000039b02c83
     R13: ffff905679b02c80  R14: ffff90567ac42000  R15: ffff90562837f880
 #0 [ffff9056766dbb30] mptscsih_qcmd at ffffffffc03bd71e [mptscsih]
 #1 [ffff9056766dbbd8] mptspi_qcmd at ffffffffc03622e0 [mptspi]
 #2 [ffff9056766dbc00] scsi_dispatch_cmd at ffffffff9a8d1540
 #3 [ffff9056766dbc28] scsi_request_fn at ffffffff9a8daadc
 #4 [ffff9056766dbc90] __blk_run_queue at ffffffff9a7436b9
 #5 [ffff9056766dbca8] queue_unplugged at ffffffff9a74377a
 #6 [ffff9056766dbce0] blk_flush_plug_list at ffffffff9a746fb8
 #7 [ffff9056766dbd40] blk_finish_plug at ffffffff9a747424
 #8 [ffff9056766dbd58] xfs_buf_delwri_submit_buffers at ffffffffc06190f9 [xfs]
 #9 [ffff9056766dbdf8] xfs_buf_delwri_submit_nowait at ffffffffc0619e50 [xfs]
#10 [ffff9056766dbe08] xfsaild at ffffffffc0648d3f [xfs]
#11 [ffff9056766dbec8] kthread at ffffffff9a4c1c71